Forget and wake up

Baltika is preparing for two home games starting this Friday against Luch-Energy from Vladivostok which is coming to Kaliningrad being in the dangerous zone of the First League Championship in spite of the promising season before the start. They got relegated from Premier League last season and as all former Top Russian League participants wanted to be back there as soon as possible. Now it is already impossible for they failed many games of the season and haven’t even ensured in the First League yet. 

The upcoming game with Luch will be the most distant rivalry in Russia nowdays. By plane you go for about a dozen of hours and the trip by train takes you almost a week of travel. 

Baltika is getting ready for the game after the tough winning match home against FC Chita 2-1 which was followed by the worst performance from our team since 1994 when we routed 6-0 last time and almost the same happened in 2001 season conceding 5 times in Chita. Since that we had been playing without the disasters like that till Sibir FC game which scored us 5 goals already in the first half supplemented with one more in the second half that resulted in a 6-0 catastrophe. No need to dig deep trying to find the mistakes made or those responsible for the humiliating defeat. 

Two days later we got up our nerves and played a 0-0 draw in the Sverdlovskaya oblast against FC Ural. 

To achieve the aims put before the season we should win the both home games to finish the season on place 4 or 5.

Alexey Maximov

Alex77786@mail.ru